Of interest around the blogsphere

I see a number interesting sentencing-related items on other blogs that merit attention:

• Grits for Breakfast has the news here that an “overhaul of Texas’ probation system sailed through the Texas Senate yesterday and is now headed to the Governor.”

• INCourts discusses here three interesting Blakely decisions from the intermediate appellate courts in Indiana.

• Steve Sady at the Ninth Circuit Blog has this extended analysis of two new circuit cases which “provide critical pieces of the post-Shepard logic that requires re-interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act and Section 922(g).”

• Mike at Crime & Federalism in this post astutely spots a “Crawford at sentencing” issue in a recent Eighth Circuit decision.

• Will Baude at Crescat Sententia in this post notices, as did Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy, that Justice Thomas seemed quite willing in Deck, when a death sentence was at issue, to disregard originalism based on changed circumstances.